Cinema: Redacted

Directed by Brian De Palma, IFI and selected cinemas, 16

Marking the fifth year of the war in Iraq, Brian De Palma’s muddled, wrong-headed Redacted is a jumpy, overly-ambitious examination of a platoon of American GIs manning a dangerous checkpoint, some of whom rape an Iraqi teenager.

Shot quickly on a very low budget and based on a real-life case - since classified as a war crime - De Palma’s mockumentary is pieced ...